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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 31 2024, 2:20 PM
olce added inline comments.
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small addition staged in my tree

emaste added a reviewer: kib.

Describe the two different features in more detail

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It is also worth mentioning that SMAP/PAN provide very effective NULL pointer dereference protection in kernel, and make mapping a page at address zero safe.

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'not owned by the kernel' is a weird formulation, I even have to stop digesting it. The right way to express it is probably 'pages accessible to userspace/non-privileged code'.

andrew added inline comments.
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I think PAN only prevents read/write as it's just for data accesses.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 31 2024, 3:20 PM